Eleanor Stargall

Do you remember when the
Republicans paid Mike Ely
to gather up street people
and go around town disrupting
Democratic polling sites
as a part of their dirty tricks
campaign to buy another
term for our Mayor Garrity?

What you won’t remember is
when I packed it in after years
fighting them on behalf of
a “public interest” most of the
public had no interest in
protecting. So I took the bribe
they offered me and shut up
while they elected that moron
Robin Parker to Congress.
I could have warned you he’d send our
kids off to die, but you were
too busy waving flags to hear.
My gift to you Spoon River.